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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Member Spotlight on Anna Z.

Anna grew up in
East Germany (behind the Iron Curtain) until she was 15. She couldn’t go to a store for special things
like zippers, nice jackets. She had to
make them, using parts from old clothes, curtains, etc. Anna learned to make things from her
mother. She was always in to knitting
and handwork.

When she was 20,
she moved to England. Her roommate took
a quilting class. Anna learned to paper
piece from her, but didn’t like it much.
She was inspired by a friend’s patchwork quilt. She made individual blocks for her own quilt,
but didn’t put it together. Her Aunt in
German took her blocks and put them together for her.

Anna became really
interested in quilting when she joined the Philly Modern Quilt Guild.

Here are some quilts that she shared with us:

Amy Butler
pinks and greens: her first complete quilt

Anna shared the
book, “ Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts” , written by the owner of Purl
Soho.She’s made the color wheel quilt
from the book 4 times.

Blue Quilt Top

Red Pepper Inspired quilt, using scraps

Sew Katy Did Inspired quilt: (1/2 square value quilt)

Table Runner:
Organic piecing made during a PMQG class led by Sujata

Denyse
Schmidt’s Improv Quilting Class: in shades of blue

Anna made this quilt totally by free hand (no ruler or rotary cutter) made while
in Germany on vacation

3 comments:

Wow, Anna has lots of great quilts to share! I'm impressed that she's made the color wheel quilt four times. I wonder if she quilted it the same way each time? I'm just finishing my first color wheel quilt.